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Board Meeting - (1/31/2010)
MHBOS's elected board gathered for it's monthly meeting
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Tu B'Shevat Seder - (1/30/2010)
celebrated the new year of the trees with over a 125 members of the greater boston jewish community
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Wrestling with Privilege - (1/27/2010)
another successful session!
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Bread Baking, Needle Quaking Crafternoon - (1/24/2010)
we made sour dough bagels and learned to crochet during periods of waiting
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Farm to Shul: Reflections on Preparing for Tubshvat - (1/19/2010)
discussed upcoming events
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Partners In Brunch: Fundraiser for Haiti - (1/18/2010)
Delicious Caribbean-themed brunch w/ information about Partners in Health to satisfy the body's hunger for nutrition, the heart's hunger for connection, and the soul's hunger for action
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Moishe/Kavod Arts Retreat on MLK Weekend - (1/17/2010)
A weekend of arts creation, relaxation, and community building in the beautiful and sacred space of the Peace Abbey
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Sex Ed For Young Adults: Session 2 - (1/14/2010)
This week's topic: Mind and Body
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Wrestling with Privilege - (1/13/2010)
A group workshop focused on supporting and challenging one another to change the world
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Shabbat Team Brunch - (1/10/2010)
pancakes and planning
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Housing Justice "Welcoming in the New Year" - (1/6/2010)
Let's make 2010 the year where people can stay in their homes!
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Kol Meeting - (12/20/2009)
Young adult Jews meet to talk about how to have more voice between the Jewish community and Muslim community.
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farm to shul brunch - (12/20/2009)
young adults gathered to talk about local food in winter, the holidays and food, and upcoming tubshvat events.
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Workmen’s Circle First Annual Radical Hanukkah Show - (12/17/2009)
dancing, drinking, and more dancing w/ the Workmen's Circle crew
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JCRC Young Adult Community Service Kick Off Event - (12/16/2009)
moishe/kavodniks joined JCRC folks to learn about local community service projects and ways to get involved
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Third Thursday Movie (on Wednesday!) - (12/16/2009)
This Months Movie: Muslim Cool
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Exotic Lattke Party (and Crafts Market) - (12/15/2009)
beets, apples, zucchini oh my!
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Boston Workmen’s Circle Skillshare (co-sponsored by Moishe/Kavod) - (12/13/2009)
Workshops Included:
First round:
o How to navigate the public benefits system
o Sewing basics – patching, mending, and more
Second round:
o Finance basics
o Belly Dancing
o Doughnut-making!
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A Chanukah-Themed Housing Foreclosure Workshop and Celebration - (12/13/2009)
We gathered together to learn the nuts and bolts of foreclosure, listen to personal stories from tenants who faced foreclosure, do a short text study, and brainstorm ways we want to continue Moishe/Kavod's commitment to housing justice
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Mussar for Young Adults - Hannukah: Transforming Darkness into Light - (12/10/2009)
Drawing on Mussar and the teachings of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, this interactive workshop explored the spiritual potential of Hannukah for mobilizing inner resources to bring clarity and light to places of darkness, confusion and suffering both in ourselves and in the world at large. The workshop was led by Rabbi David Jaffe.
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Arts Gathering - (12/6/2009)
dined... and discussed future arts activities
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"Us Time" - the Urban Nutcracker - (12/5/2009)
The Moishe/Kavod housemates braved the snow storm to spend the evening together at the Urban Nutcracker
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Housing Justice Visioning: Where we've been, Where we're going, and How to Get Involved - (11/23/2009)
another brilliant gathering of insightful community leaders
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Soap Making Crafternoon - (11/22/2009)
Moishe/Kavodniks were joined by folks from the Workmen's Circle as they created homemade soaps!
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Membership Visioning - (11/22/2009)
Dedicated Moishe/Kavodniks gathered to discuss Membership goals for 2010
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Sex Ed for Young Adults - (11/22/2009)
Mimi's 2nd Intro Session. Get psyched for the full course!
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Third Thursday Film Night - (11/19/2009)
Moishe/Kavodniks gathered together to watch Mel Brook's The Producers
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Mussar for Young Adults Practice Group - (11/19/2009)
the learning continues...
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Charles River Beit Midrash - (11/17/2009)
the learning continues...
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Moishe/Kavod Wins an Award! - Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries 43rd Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner: Social Change and the Spirituality of Hope: Dialogue - (11/17/2009)
moishe/kavodniks proudly accepted our award!
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Rosh Chodesh Kislev Gathering - (11/15/2009)
the new moon gatherers came together to creatively exploring the theme of dreams
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Mussar for Young Adults Practice Group - (11/12/2009)
Moishe/Kavodniks and learned about and engaged in personal spiritual practice
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Farm-to-Shul Gathering - (11/11/2009)
As the farm-to-shul team starts scheduling our workshops at shuls, we are wrestling to decide what the ask of these workshops should be. Creating CSAs, on advocating for the Food Council Bill? We got together to continue creating a powerful vision!
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Kol - (11/8/2009)
young jews talking about having to have more voice in their local jewish community, particularly around issues of how our community relates to the local Muslim community.
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Beit Midrash with Judy Klitsmer - (11/3/2009)
Another evening of inspirational learning!
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Anti-Foreclosure Canvassing in Somerville! - (11/1/2009)
Moishe/Kavod is expanding its housing justice work to the other side of the river by teaming up with the Community Action Agency of Somerville, which is following in City Life’s footsteps to talk with homeowners and tenants facing foreclosure in Somerville about their rights. Canvassing kicked-off on Sunday,
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Shabbat and Channukah Visioning - (11/1/2009)
Moishe/Kavodniks gathered to discuss ideas for upcoming Shabbatot and for Channukah (and we finally took down the sukkah!)
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Us Time: Dinner in the North End - (10/29/2009)
Housemates headed to Little Italy for their weekly House Meeting Marathon
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Housing Justice Visioning: Where we've been, Where we're going, and How to Get Involved - (10/26/2009)
Moishe/Kavodniks came together to learn about how you to get involved in housing justice and anti-foreclosure canvassing. New folks were welcomed over cookies and milk!
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Sex Ed for Young Adults - (10/22/2009)
Sex Ed Extraordinaire led Moishe/Kavodniks in Intro of UU's "Our Whole Lives" young adult sex ed curriculum
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Farm to Shul Workshop - (10/21/2009)
Local Food Guru Meira led Moishe/Kavodniks through the new and improved Farm-to-Shul Workshop soon to be presented at local synagogs and schools
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AHiU post interfaith discussion on cooperatives - (10/20/2009)
Young people from the At home in Utopia event and others joined with members of the Lucy Stone Cooperative (a Unitarian group similar to Moishe/Kavod) to discuss cooperatives and living in faith community. We met as a group at a bar after the At Home in Utopia Showing.
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At Home in Utopia - (10/20/2009)
Film Showing and Follow-Up discussion w/ Moishe/Kavodniks and Jewish community leaders from Workman's Circle
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Women's Rosh Chodesh Circle - (10/18/2009)
Our new moon gathers joined together to bring in the new month, celebrate womanhood, celebrate each other, and create artwork
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City Life/Vida Urbana Canvassing - (10/18/2009)
moishe/kavodniks took to the streets to spread the word about housing foreclosure
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Dancing the Torah - (10/18/2009)
Moishe/Kavodniks attended dance performance Dancing the Torah choreographed by our very own Gabrielle Orcha
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Mussar for Young Adults - (10/15/2009)
In Mussar practice, the focus is on elevating our Middot (Personality Traits) such as generosity, loving-kindness, patience, and gratitude. The goal of the practice is to use everyday life as spiritual growth. The group is be led by Rabbi David Jaffe, Dean at Gann Academy and an experienced Mussar teacher. This was the 1st of 4 classes over the next 8 weeks.
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the arts: dinner and discussion - (10/12/2009)
moishe/kavodniks interested in the arts met over dinner to discuss local happenings and ideas for moishe/kavod programs
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Gesher City Kickoff - (10/7/2009)
Networking/Recruiting young Jews in the Boston Area
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Food Justice and Judaism: Celebrating What We've Done, Dreaming of our Future (Part 2) - (10/4/2009)
reflection. sharing. visioning.
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Workmen's Circle Skill Share and Sukkot Celebration - (10/4/2009)
Canning, Budgeting, and Dancing... followed by Swapping and Potluck-ing!
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Sukkah Decorating - (10/1/2009)
corn and gourds and pictures, oh my!
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Sukkah Building Part II - (10/1/2009)
hang up the walls and added more skach!
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Sukkah Building Part I - (9/30/2009)
community members gathered to beginning building the sukkah
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Yom Kippur Breakfast - (9/28/2009)
moishe/kavodniks from near and far joined together to conclude their yom kippur experiences
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City Life/Vida Urbana Canvassing - (9/27/2009)
pre-Yom Kippur housing justice canvassing with City Life/Vida Urbana
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Food Justice and Judaism: Celebrating What We've Done, Dreaming of our Future (Part 1) - (9/22/2009)
a group of moishe/kavod-niks committed to food justice and our local food campaign joined together to disucss where we've been and where we'd like to go
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Interfaith Muslim and Jewish Holiday Festivities & Potluck - (9/21/2009)
Within days of the ending of Ramadan and the beginning of the Jewish High Holidays, Jews and Muslims celebrated the beauty of our holidays together!
We were nourished by foods representative of our holiday celebrations and explored the personal significance of these holidays to our daily lives.
Participants were asked to bring a vegetarian dish that represents Ramadan, Eid, Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur.
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Jewish-Muslim Visioning Gathering - (9/17/2009)
Kavod House members gather with Muslim friends to brainstorm and map out future collaborative programs.
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Beit Midrash: Special Mussar Program - (9/15/2009)
Mussar is the school of Jewish wisdom dedicated to living a spiritually alive, ethically sensitive, purpose-driven life. This spiritual practice addresses eternal questions like “What is my purpose in life?” and “Who do I want as a life partner?” with practical and accessible teachings. Rosh Hashana offers a perfect opportunity to begin new practices and reconnect with our purpose.
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Trew (Trans + Jew) Learning Series: Spiritual Preparation for the High Holidays - (9/15/2009)
The first installment of our Trew Learning Series. So often, queer and trans Jews don’t have the opportunity to spiritually prepare for the High Holidays. During this evening of study, sharing, and reflection, we engaged with some of the themes of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and most importantly, connected with each other.
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Kickoff BBQ and Board Elections - (9/13/2009)
Started off the year with a BBQ and 1st ever Moishe/Kavod House Board Elections! Congratulations to Evan, Lauren, Aliza, Julie, and Nina!
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Bet Midrash - (9/8/2009)
Jewish learning in early fall
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CSA Top Chef - (8/30/2009)
2nd annual CSA Top Chef Competition (part of local foods campaign) - moishe/kavodniks put on their thinking caps and cooked up creative (and tasty) dishes featuring ingredients from Red Fire Farm
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Bet Midrash - (8/11/2009)
Jeeeewwwwwissshhh learning
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August Crafternoon: Photography Workshop - (8/9/2009)
Photographer Leise Jones facilitated workshop on working with digital photography. The goal was for each participant to become more familiar with the variety of modes and settings on his or her camera.
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LGBT Solidarity Vigil - (8/5/2009)
Community members and allies congregated on the Temple steps to create a vigil in solidarity with the young Israelis killed last week in Tel Aviv
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Bet Midrash - (8/4/2009)
The usual - Jewish learning :-)
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Tour de Farms - (8/1/2009)
As part of our local food campaign, Moishe/Kavod members joined in AdvenTours's annual Tour de Farm bike ride
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Beit Midrash - (7/28/2009)
Jewish learning and good food. Who could ask for more?
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Annie Benefit Concert - (7/26/2009)
One of our community leaders organized a fundraiser concert to support her year studying at the Pardes Institute, Jerusalem. We turned out a crowd!
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Rosh Chodesh Av - (7/22/2009)
The monthly women's circle met to mark new moon for this month of grieving and redemption
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Bet Midrash - (7/21/2009)
Yet more good Jewish learning
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Poetry workshop - (7/19/2009)
Local performance poet Shira Erlichman led an energetic, hands-on exploration of saying the truth with lies, and persona as a tool for revelation.
Note: this receipt reflects the $50 that we paid her for her services. If you want me to give the receipt for $50 for dinner and then just do a separate one saying that I pay her with a check, i (MK) can.
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Movie Night: Real Dirt on Farmer John - (7/16/2009)
In line with our ongoing local foods campaign, this month we showed the unique independent movie: The Real Dirt on Farmer John
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Beit Midrash - (7/14/2009)
Another great beit midrash.
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Shabbat team meeting - (7/12/2009)
We planned the next several Shabbatot as well as the high holidays.
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Transition Team meeting - (7/12/2009)
We talked about board elections and created a timeline for when we need to roll out various materials, like the applications, etc.
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Bet Midrash - (7/7/2009)
more good jewish learning
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4th of July Weekend at the Beach - (7/5/2009)
One of our leaders whose been with us since the beginning, Jill, agreed to have a bunch of people over on Saturday and Sunday of July 4th weekend. It was a great way to bond in a different environment.
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July 4th - One independent country, two intependent women - (7/4/2009)
We threw a July 4th farewell party for Jordan Namerow, Moishe House Boston leader extraordinaire, as well as a bday party for Ziva, a rising star here at Moishe House. Very fun!
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Canvassing for Housing Justice - (6/28/2009)
Our monthly canvassing effort to keep folks in their homes.
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Poetry Workshop w/Community Poet - (6/28/2009)
Performance poet Shira Erlichman led an energetic, hands-on explorations on saying the truth with lies, and persona as a tool for revelation.
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DIY: Pickle with Bickel - (6/28/2009)
As part of our local foods campaign, community members learned how to pickle!
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FIlm night -- Meet the filmmaker - (6/25/2009)
Grace Shulner, the filmmaker behind "Predictable But Fun," presented her movie at Moishe/Kavod!
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Beit Midrash - (6/23/2009)
Another great week of the beit midrash!
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Moishe/Kavod Retreat, Days 2-3 - (6/20/2009)
It was a weekend-long shebang, ya know? We celebrated Shabbat Friday night, chilled out on Saturday, partied on Saturday night, and worked hard on Sunday morning.
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Moishe/Kavod Community Retreat - (6/19/2009)
Our annual, community-wide retreat in the woods of New Hampshire!
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Arts Team Visioning Meeting - (6/14/2009)
Our new revamped arts team met to discuss the summer and fall schedule, and to vision a new structure for organizing movie nights, crafternoons, poetry workshops and more!
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Movie Moghuls - (6/9/2009)
The movie team gathered to create the summer "Third Thursday" series...
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Retreat Visioning, Part 2 - (6/8/2009)
Our team gathered to lay out the vision for our upcoming retreat and ensure that it is both meaningful and super-fun!
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Clothing Swap - (6/6/2009)
Lots of ladies, lots of lovely old-new things...
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Retreat Visioning - (5/27/2009)
A team of Moishe/Kavodniks gathered to vision together what our community retreat will look like.
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Rosh Chodesh turned Protest - (5/26/2009)
On the day the CA Supreme Court decision on Prop 8 came down, our Rosh Chodesh celebration transformed into a downtown Boston protest with community allies.
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Jammin' for Justice - (5/20/2009)
A Moishe/Kavod delegation participated in the 15th anniversary celebration of our community ally, ACE-EJ.
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Old housemates/new housemates - (5/18/2009)
We got all of us together to celebration the transition from old housemates to new housemates, and to plan for that transition.
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You Said...What?!? Comedy from America's Many Faces - (5/18/2009)
Partnering with the New Center for Arts & Culture, we co-sponsored a comedy night aimed at outreach to Jewish young adults.
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Time Trade Circle Orientation - (5/17/2009)
The Time Trade Circle© is a grassroots, community-based group whose members
exchange services. The Time Trade Circle lets us share our own skills and get
help from others who offer things we need. When you spend an hour helping
another member, one hour of credit is added to your account. You can spend your hours getting services from other members.
The Time Trade Circle’s mission is to create and strengthen informal support
systems in the community.
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Transition Team Visioning - (5/17/2009)
The folks visioning our community's continuing evolution gather for some big thinking.
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Housemate gathering - (5/4/2009)
A little us time to reflect on April and plan for May and upcoming transitions...over pizza.
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Shabbat Team Gathers - (5/3/2009)
Ever-expanding group of folks learning how to lead Shabbat services and make the experience meaningful for our community
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Moishe/Kavod Transition Team Gathers - (5/3/2009)
Continuing to build our internal network for a transition to new housemates and more democratic leadership this fall
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More Tuning up for the Spring - (5/3/2009)
ABD trains on how to get your bike ready for good riding!
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Urban Ramble - (5/3/2009)
A long bike ride out to Waltham and back, led by our own ABD!
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Rosh Chodesh Iyar - (4/28/2009)
Monthly women's new moon gathering
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Housemate Selection Team - (4/27/2009)
Nine of us came together to select among our great applicants to live in the house next year!
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Moishe/Kavod Walks Against Homelessness - (4/26/2009)
Walking in Somerville!
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Moishe/Kavod Team Joins in Somerville Save Our Homes Walk - (4/23/2009)
Potluck to inform folks about upcoming walk against homelessness in Somerville
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Housemate dinner - (4/20/2009)
Reuniting after Pesach!
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Canvassing for Housing Justice - (4/19/2009)
We continued our canvassing efforts to prevent evictions for tenants and former owners living in foreclosed properties.
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Rad Jew Reunion - (4/19/2009)
A reunion of participants in Joe Gindi's radical Judaism class from last year.
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Margie's Birthday Party - (4/18/2009)
Our little girls get another year older!
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Tuning up for the Spring--Bike Workshop - (4/12/2009)
Getting excited that the weather is warming up? That you can breathe some fresh(er) air and get back on your bike for commuting or recreational riding? Then come to the workshops "Tuning Up For the Spring."
The objectives of these workshops are to help you learn how your bike works, how to tune-up your bike for the riding reason, and to support a community of bike riders and advocates. In the first workshop, we'll discuss options for commuting and recreational riding, go over how bikes work, what a tune-up is and what you'll need in order to do it. In the second workshop, we'll walk through a tune-up and then you'll get personal support during an open bike tune-up clinic. And we'll talk shop and eat dinner, too (potluck style, BYOB).
The workshops are independent and you can come to the first, the second, or both however works best for you (none is not an option). We will be providing pumps and tools, and ask you to bring replacement parts for your tune-up as well as any bike tools you can share with others in the workshop.
You can RSVP for "Tuning Up For the Spring Workshops" to Aaron.Desatnik@gmail.com. Learn more about the workshop below. Feel free to call (preferred) or email me with questions about the workshops or bike mechanic questions.
When: Sunday, April 12, 2:30-6pm
Where: Kavod House, 165 Winthrop Rd., Apt. B, Brookline, MA 02445
Bring: Your bike, potluck dish, bike tools (if you have any), rag for cleaning your bike and clothes you can get greasy, any parts to replace on your bike.
Outline:
-Review of tune-up tactics
-Walk through basic tune-up (chain, brakes, gears, sizing, tires, alignment)
-Open shop with bike mechanic(s) on hand
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Birkat Hachamah -- Blessing of the Sun Event - (4/8/2009)
Every 28 years, the Jewish community celebrates the return of the sun to its original place in the heavens at the precise time and day of its creation. This celebration is called Birkat Hahammah - blessing of the sun.
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Cooking for Passover - (4/8/2009)
Getting ready for the Seder!
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Final Passover Cleaning, including Burning of Chametz (Leavening) Ceremony - (4/7/2009)
In preparation for the Moishe/Kavod House seder, people helped with final Passover cleaning, including the burning of leavened food ceremony.
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Turn Beantown into Greentown - (4/5/2009)
Jess Lerner, Moishe/Kavod regular and local green entrepreneur, made it to the top four finalists in Boston's "Pitch the City: Turn Beantown into Greentown" contest with her idea for a green public awareness and action campaign! Moishe/Kavodniks came out to support her!
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Labor Seder - (4/2/2009)
Bringing together the Jewish and labor union communities in Greater Boston, together with the New England Jewish Labor Committee.
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Rosh Chodesh Nissan - (3/26/2009)
12 women came to celebrate the themes of newness and healing through voice, led by Riana and Sarah T
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Transition Team Meeting - (3/22/2009)
Another great strategy session, this time talking about how to select new housemates, how our transition team (and probably the board) should make decisions, and how our volunteer board and the housemates should balance responsibilities in the community.
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Gragger Purim Party - (3/21/2009)
We teamed up with the Workmen's Circle to put on a sick party. It was huge, and hugely creative, with a spiel, a hula hooping show, and an ethiopian funk band. and a huge dance party.
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Third Thursday Movie Night - (3/19/2009)
We gathered to watch a great documentary about Juliette de Baraicli Levy, a pioneer of herbal medicine. Afterwards we were introduced to some different healing herbs and drank various infusions.
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Anti-foreclosure canvassing - (3/15/2009)
Continuing our work to prevent evictions throughout Boston, with our partners at City Life/Vida Urbana.
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Crafternoons - Art and Witness - (3/15/2009)
Shoshana led us in a psychological exploration through art. It was a lovely day, so we sat on the porch.
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Dance the Torah Portion - (3/15/2009)
We danced about the weekly torah portion. This new moishenik Gabrielle organized it, but actually my mom (visiting from nyc) and I were the only ones who went besides her.
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Food Justice Gathering - (3/11/2009)
Rolling out an educational curriculum around local foods!
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Transition team kickoff meeting - (3/9/2009)
We had our first transition team meeting, where we started the process of creating a membership board and dividing responsibilities between housemates and the board. We went straight from that to the Shabbat team. Half the people from the transition team are also on the Shabbat team, so we took pictures together at the end.
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Shabbat/holidays team meeting - (3/9/2009)
We had our bimonthly shabbat/holidays team meeting, and planned the next bunch of Shabbatot, and passover. I (MK) made dinner for everyone during the 10 minutes between the transition team meeting and the Shabbat team meeting. whew!
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Healing Circle - (3/3/2009)
Our first healing circle, to support members of our community whose parents have cancer, or who are going through a hard time. It was really sweet.
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Third Thursdays Film Night - (2/19/2009)
An awesome debut for our film series. WE watched TransAmerica and ate homemade popcorn, and then talked about building trans awareness in the Jewish community.
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Prayer Vigil for Immigration Reform - (2/19/2009)
We prayed for the protection of immigrants and the empowerment of faith communities, and we demanded moral courage from Congress. This vigil was part of a national interfaith effort to organize prayer vigils coinciding with the first recess of this session of Congress, February 13-22, when members will be home in their districts. The vigils gave people of faith an opportunity to reflect on the spiritual roots of their work for immigrants; highlight the moral aspects of the immigration situation; and repent of our nation’s failed and sinful policies and their effects on immigrant workers and their families.
Speakers included Margie Klein of Moishe/Kavod House; Bishop Filipe Teixeira, executive director, Immigration Pastoral Center Inc., Brockton; and a staff member from Centro Presente, Somerville.
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Meet James Perry, Executive Director of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center - (2/17/2009)
James Perry is currently the Executive Director of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center. Since taking over in 2004, he has turned his agency into one of the most effective non-profits in the city. He is already seen as a leader in Washington as an advocate for equal and affordable housing, and he has spoken around the country about housing policies that can really work for the Gulf Coast. Working with Jewish allies, Mr. Perry is now trying to forge a coalition that can follow in the footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel, a coalition that is dedicated to building a united front of progressive African-American and Jewish allies that, together, can make lasting change happen in New Orleans. For a little more information about Mr. Perry, check out some comments made about him by Princeton Professor of African-American Studies Melissa Harris-Lacewell: http://princetonprofs.blogspot.com/2009/01/james-perry-for-new-orleans.html
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Crafternoon: Challah Baking - (2/15/2009)
Alex Khitrik taught us how to bake challah!
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Anarchists Against the Wall - (2/15/2009)
About AATW: Anarchists Against the Wall (AATW) is a direct action group that was established in 2003 in response to the construction of the wall Israel is building on Palestinian land in the Occupied West Bank. The group works in cooperation with Palestinians in a joint popular struggle against the occupation. Since its formation, the group has participated in hundreds of demonstrations and direct actions against the wall specifically, and the occupation generally, all over the West Bank. All of AATW’s work in Palestine is coordinated through villages’ local popular committees and is essentially Palestinian led. Shachaf Polakow of AATW is preparing a slide show and about a half-hour presentation about the work the group is currently doing in the West Bank, Israel, and Gaza.
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Canvassing w/City Life - (2/15/2009)
Continuing our fight to prevent evictions based on bank foreclosures!
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Tell Bank of America to Stop Foreclosures & Evictions! - (2/14/2009)
Moishe/Kavod House has been working with our allies at City Life/Vida Urbana to halt foreclosures and protect tenants in foreclosed properties from eviction as the economic crisis continues to grow. We helped put pressure on one major bank to listen to our demands!
Bank of America needed our TOUGH LOVE, so we broke up with them this Valentine’s Day.
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Tu B'Shvat Seder - (2/8/2009)
Incredible. 200 people came together to celebrate the birthday of the trees
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Watch the Superbowl - (2/1/2009)
A rousing end to our first ever membership meeting - touchdown!
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Shabbat Feb team meeting - (2/1/2009)
Monthly meeting for the committee to vision next steps re shabbats and holidays...
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Membership Team Meeting - (2/1/2009)
Pre-AGM committee meeting to iron out final agenda, do run-through, set up equipment, etc
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First Annual Membership Meeting - (2/1/2009)
A gathering of over 50 folks, now official Moishe/Kavod members, to hear our state of the union and vote on next steps
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Labor Seder Discussion - (1/25/2009)
Getting the crew together to start figuring out what this year's Labor Seder will look like...
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Anti-Foreclosure Canvassing - (1/25/2009)
Hitting the streets to help keep people in their homes
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Local Foods Organizers Meet-up - (1/25/2009)
Organizers of local foods campaign get together to check-in about programming, rejuvenate about campaign and upcoming events and strategize around Tu B'shevat seder.
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Local Foods Crafts Day - (1/25/2009)
Goal: Take the next steps in putting together the kits for workshop leaders, which will include text studies, flash cards, and and materials for produce wheel art project.
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PLP Wine & Cheese Salon - (1/18/2009)
Introducing folks to the Professional Leaders Project...
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Interfaith Peace Vigil - (1/13/2009)
Calling for a sustainable cease-fire and peace in Israel/Palestine
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Gift of Life Bone Marrow Registry - (1/11/2009)
Registering folks in our community with the Gift of Life foundation.
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Painting the Prayer Space - (1/11/2009)
It looks beautiful!
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Journal Making - (1/6/2009)
An opportunity to make beautiful, hand-made journals with our community artist, Laura Steinman...
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Rosh Chodesh Tevet - (12/27/2008)
The ladies' regular... this month we celebrated destruction and renewal with an outing to candlepin bowling!
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Exotic Latke Party - (12/13/2008)
Our third annual exotic latke party was delicious and a huge success!
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Canvassing & celebration w/City Life - (12/7/2008)
Continuing our post-foreclosure anti-eviction work...plus they honored us for our 18 months of volunteerism at their 35th anniversary celebration
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Protest w/Workmen's Circle 5th Graders - (12/7/2008)
Continuing our involvement to support the janitors of a local commercial cleaning company
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Goodbye Party for Joe - (7/19/2008)
We threw a rocking goodbye party for joe, complete with a food area, a dance party area, and then an area where people wrote Joe letters to open at various points, e.g. "Open on chanukah." The party was monkey themed, because many people think Joe is existentially like a monkey. Joe will load pictures shortly.
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Gesher City Info Shmooze - (7/16/2008)
Ben, Evan, and Margie attended the info shmooze, and recruited 55 new Moishe House folks! There were some more people there, so we are only counting the folks we signed up and had substantive conversations with about our house and activities, plus the three of us, plus the 15 folks who came along who are already very involved.
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Let My People Vote - (7/16/2008)
We visited all the legislators in the statehouse urging them to pass the same day voter registration bill.
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Color War! - (7/13/2008)
We took at time machine back to the Jewish summer camp of our youth for a day of COLOR WAR, including dizzy bat, three legged races, tug-of-war, and other fun games.
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Shabbat in the Park - (7/11/2008)
We had a great Shabbat picnic in the park. Note: for reasons I can't explain, there are actually two different albums of this event. I'm posting one, but the other one is right next to it on the phanfare page.
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Membership team meeting - (7/9/2008)
We talked about membership and leadership development
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Membership meeting - (7/7/2008)
We talked about how to create paid membership.
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Arts Team Meeting - (7/6/2008)
A fabulous blockbuster of a meeting - we now have about 15 new events on the calendar!
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Rosh Chodesh Tammuz - (7/3/2008)
This month is all about clear seeing. Community member Lauren Klatsky led a great workshop using yoga and breathing to help us open our throat chakras and move into greater truth
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Sarah's 1-on-1 with Shoshana - (7/3/2008)
Presenting... new Kavod member and incoming rabbinical student Shoshana Friedman. We went out for tea and cake and already she's starting an eco-kashrut cell. Rock on!
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Healthy Products Party - (7/2/2008)
Our leader, Aliza Wasserman, taught us about a bill in the State House to support non-toxic products and healthy alternatives to toxics, and taught us some thigns we can do to reduce our use of harsh toxic chemicals.
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Debate Watch Party Planning - (7/2/2008)
We met with a staff person of AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps, to plan a Boston debate watch party for October 7th.
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Radical Judaism Siyyum - (6/22/2008)
Today was our final radical judaism class. We discussed Jewish activism in the 60s and 90s, and had a concluding circle of reflection. Then we celebrated with food and drink!
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Shabbat - (6/20/2008)
Another great Shabbat services and dinner. We were supposed to have a picnic, but we got rained out, and everyone was really good about just shifting the plan last minute and setting up inside.
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House Dinner outside! - (6/12/2008)
a YUMMY summer supper to debrief on the retreat and select a new housemate...
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Righteous Indignation Follow Up Meeting - (6/11/2008)
Together we discussed how we would work on election efforts in the coming months, which will include a voter registration drive, a big media event, a "let my people vote" lit drop for legislators, and more!
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Shavuot dinner, post all nighter - (6/11/2008)
We had people staying with us and other people who came over for Shavuot dinner, and then the same food fed a bunch of Moishe guests for lunch the next day. Pics are of prep beforehand.
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Moishe/Kavod Leadership Retreat - (6/8/2008)
We took 30 of our finest leaders to sing, sun and scheme over a shabbat in New Hampshire. A good time really was had by all.
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House meeting/interviews - (6/5/2008)
We had our weekly housemeeting, and also interviewed two candidates over the phone for our house opening since Joe is leaving. We wound up getting a really awesome guy named Aaron, whom we actually didn't interview that night.
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Rosh Chodesh Women's Gathering - (6/3/2008)
In honor of Sivan, the month when we receive the Torah, we had a receiving circle where each woman received blessings for the month from the group, and we also had a clothing swap and received clothing from one another.
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Beit Midrash - (6/3/2008)
More beit midrash.
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Radical Judaism Class - (6/1/2008)
This week we are talking about ritual creation!
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Shabbat - (5/30/2008)
Services and dinner, with bonus late night jam session.
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Jammin for Justice - (5/28/2008)
Moishe House leader Brian Brotman helped organize a big fundraiser for an environmental justice organization, and helped us turn out lots of folks to it. It was an awesome event and a very diverse crowd, and Ben won a week on Cape Cod as part of the silent auction.
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GBIO Gathering - (5/27/2008)
Folks from Moishe House joined 1700 folks from religious communities around the city to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization. We are only counting the people from Moishe House, since obviously we didn't recruit the other 1700 people.
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Radical Judaism Class - (5/26/2008)
This week we talked about post-zionism and diasporaism
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Shabbat Team Meeting - (5/21/2008)
Another great meeting of the Shabbat and holidays team, where we planned Shabbats for the summer, talked about our retreat, Shavuot, and the high holidays. Mk attended via phone.
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Moon Lodge - (5/15/2008)
Sarah and a bunch of the Moishe women (and one brave guy) headed to Camp Isabella Friedman/Elat Chaim Jewish Retreat Center to build a moon lodge, ala Anita Diamant's Red Tent.
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Art Show! - (5/13/2008)
Celebrating Morris's art gave us a fine opportunity to show Jeremy how classy we are - wine and sushi style!
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House Dinner/Meeting - (5/12/2008)
We had a house meeting, with special guest Jeremy!
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Shabbat 5-9 - (5/9/2008)
Another great Shabbat.
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Prayer Flags 3 - (5/8/2008)
Another session enabling community members to contribute to the Kavod Moishe House prayer space. The weather was gorgeous so we sat outside...
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Rosh Chodesh Iyar - (5/6/2008)
Riana and Sarah T led a cracking program on the sephirot and the chakras as we entered Iyar, the month of healing
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Rosh Chodesh women's gathering - (5/6/2008)
Women got together and reflected on their months. And there was some kabalah and reiki thrown in.
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2nd Night Seder! - (4/20/2008)
We had 14 folks for the seder, and it went really well. We split up into small groups and different groups led different parts of the seder in creative ways, like debating, monologues from the women of the exodus, new 10 plagues, new 4 questions, and a collective retelling of the story.
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Rally w/City Life - (4/16/2008)
We protested the eviction of tenants by a bank that had foreclosed on the property in which they live.
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Beit Midrash - (4/15/2008)
Another great session of the beit midrash, with special guest Dr. Jonah Steinberg, teaching on the Song of Songs in honor of Passover.
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House Dinner - (4/15/2008)
House dinner with the four of us, plus our photographer Leise, plus our board chair Mike, plus Jeremy via the internet (not counted in teh numbers).
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Radical Jewish Thought Class - (4/13/2008)
Another great episode of radical jewish thought, this one about theology.
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Prayer flag making - (4/13/2008)
The second round of making prayer flags for our prayer space. Note - we forgot to take pictures till then end, when a couple of people had gone upstairs for radical jewish thought.
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Brookline Moishito - shabbat dinner - (4/11/2008)
our folks gathered in brookline for shabbat.
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Jewish Muslim Text Study - (4/9/2008)
Our second Jewish Muslim text study. Very exciting.
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Beit Midrash Goes to the Mikveh - (4/8/2008)
Folks went to Mayim Chaim, the innovative mikveh (ritual bath) created by Anita Diamant, author of the Red Tent.
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Labor Seder - (4/7/2008)
A community-wide celebration of the emancipatory message of Passover.
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Labor Seder Leader Training - (4/6/2008)
We trained the folks on how to lead each table of participants at the Labor Seder.
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Rosh Chodesh Nissan - (4/5/2008)
Heebhop rhyming madness, celebrating the liberation of speech and the coming of spring - ping!
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Jewish Muslim Text Study - (4/3/2008)
Our first of three. Note that our volunteers ran this without us, and forgot to take pictures till the end. They say sorry.
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Klezmer Jam - (4/2/2008)
We practiced for our big debut at the labor seder the next week.
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Beit Midrash - (4/1/2008)
This month, a special series: freedom to Love: The Song of Songs and passover.
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Prayer Flag Making - (3/30/2008)
We are decorating our upstairs prayer space, so our artistic guru Laura held the first of several workshops to make prayer flags, which are like aspirational collages about what we pray for in the world, which will go in the prayer space.
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House/Board dinner and planning meeting - (3/25/2008)
Housemates plus the president, vp and treasurer of our new community board met to discuss strategies for the next step in community development, plus the budget. A good time was had by all.
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Purim! - (3/20/2008)
Amazing Purim celebration, first at our house, then a joint megillah reading with a nearby synagogue, and then everyone went to a bar to hear Golem, a klezmer punk band.
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Radical Judaism class - (3/17/2008)
This week's class... on class
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Shabbat lunch and seudah singalong - (3/15/2008)
People had such a good time they stayed til havdallah...
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Pre-Purim Costume Making - (3/13/2008)
Cathy Diebold led an awesome costume swap and skills jam over in Somerville... Wings, capes, masks, hats, adventures...
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One-on-One with Emma Rika - (3/10/2008)
Took a new member out for coffee to find out more about her and get her involved in Arts stuff - she's now going to lead a Theatre of the Oppressed workshop next month!
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Rosh Chodesh Adar II: Masks - (3/6/2008)
Trainee kokenet and Kavod member Annie Gilbert led a fabulous women's rosh chodesh circle and mask-making
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Labor Seder Planning Meeting - (3/4/2008)
For the third year in a row, our house is helping to plan the city-wide labor seder, in collaboration with the Jewish Labor Committee, whose board Ben recently joined to further strengthen our relationship and impact.
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House Dinner - (3/4/2008)
We had our bimonthly house dinner, where the four of us kick it together over some delicious food. This time Joe rocked out with vegetarian shepherds pie - and soup and lentil salad from our zany reiki master house guest, and we got to meet Jeremy, and say farewell to Brady. And Ben's girlfriend joined for dinner, which is why there were 5 of us.
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Shabbat Dinner - (2/29/2008)
In an amazing feat, our shabbat team pulled off Shabbat dinner without us, since the four of us all had to be away that weekend. The receipts you will be getting are from our shabbat team members, whom I (margie) will reimburse while I'm waiting for reimbursement from CLI.
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Mission Team Meeting - (2/28/2008)
Our team is working to develop the mission and vision statements for our house, which will help us with recruitment, publicity, and fundraising, and will also guide our internal work. It just so happened that it was also the lunar eclipse that night, so we also went outside (with a couple of our significant others) to watch that together.
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Klezmer Jam - (2/26/2008)
Another great klezmer jam!
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Board Meeting number 3 - (2/24/2008)
Board member and professional organizer Corey Leafer led a fantastic session on building leadership through 1-on-1 meetings, and the structure committee presented proposals for the new Community Leadership Initiative Team (no, really)
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Margie's Booklaunch! - (2/21/2008)
A fantastic event plugging Margie's new book Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice. We had several special guest activist speakers including grand-daddy of Jewish activism Leibel Fine and Nancy Kaufman, chair of the JCRC. A fabulous time had by all.
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Arts team Visioning meeting - (2/19/2008)
An awesome brainstorm session, kickstarting arts at MHBOS Kavod into a new dimension
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Shabbat Services and Dinner - (2/15/2008)
Another great shabbat. We thought no one was coming because of the long weekend, but then like 35 people showed up. No photos cuz shabbat started at 5pm and people started showing up at 6:30pm.
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Klezmer Jam - (2/13/2008)
A bunch of folks got together for a klezmer jam. Oy! Awesome!
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Beit Midrash - (2/12/2008)
This week we continued our study of the Mikveh sources Aliza Klein brought last week.
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Margie's One on Ones - (2/11/2008)
I met one on one with Catherine Bell from the Jewish Organizing Initiative, a training program that sends us many of our leaders, and with Rev. Manikka Bowman, with whom we hope to partner on interfaith social justice stuff.
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Tenants Rights Discussion with City Life/Vida Urbana - (2/10/2008)
We hosted a bagel brunch for members of our housing rights team to talk with Steve from City Life/Vida Urbana about the implications of the subprime mortgage scandal for the low income tenants we work with.
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Radical Judaism Class - (2/10/2008)
This was our third meeting of the radical judaism class. We discussed queerness and Jewish Identity, including reclaiming the Jewish sissy, gender performance in the Bible, and queer naked seders
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Union of Progressive Zionists Houseparty - (2/9/2008)
We hosted a house-party style fundraiser with the Union of Progressive Zionists (upzshalom.org). Prof. Marty Fellman from Brandies and a member of combatants for peace (http://www.combatantsforpeace.org/) spoke about the situation in the middle east.
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Rosh Chodesh Adar I - (2/6/2008)
Another of our monthly women's circles to celebrate the new moon and the new month. Organised by our fabulous volunteers Laura Steinman and Jordan Namerow
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House dinner - (2/5/2008)
Ben made Mom's special mac & cheese for the first time. Verdict: delicious! Plus, we talked about programming going forward and how best to execute our devious designs!
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Beit Midrash with Mayyim Hayyim - (2/5/2008)
We had a a wonderful turnout at our beit midrash this week as people came to hear Aliza Klein from Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Education Center (www.mayyimhayyim.org) talk about the renewal of mikveh in contemporary times.
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Ben's Superbowl Birthday Party - (2/3/2008)
We through a party in honor of the patriots, and Ben's birthday. Ben made us very proud, the Pats, on the other hand, let us down. Still we had lots of fun. And Ben gave all the guests goodie bags!! Look for the cute picture of Ben in is birthday hat on phanfare.
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Radical Judaism Class - (2/3/2008)
This was our second meeting of the radical judaism class. We talked about the historical roots of radical Jewish activism.
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Shabbat dinner - (2/1/2008)
Nine of our board members and leaders (and then two new folks) got together for shabbat dinner. This event didn't go out on the list, but small events like this are one of our main ways of building our community.
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Beit Midrash - (1/29/2008)
Our weekly beit midrash is roll'n along. Once again we brought together a band of Jews to study torah and eat hummus.
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Tubishvat - (1/21/2008)
Our tubishvat seder drew in over 65 people, including loads of new people! Sarah led a beautiful contemplative service. We also introduced people to Jewish ecological resources.
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Mad Hatter Tea Party - (1/21/2008)
Sarah threw a mad hatter tea party for herself in fine british style. Notice the hats, and the tea. It was a classy affair.
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Radical Judaism Class - (1/20/2008)
Joseph has begun coordinating a bi-monthly course on radical Jewish Thought and Practice for 25 area students and activists. Goto hjttp://wwww.brandeis.edu/~jgindi to see a copy of the syllabus and the readings. The first class went very well. We discussed our relationships to Jewish identity and activism.
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Canvassing with City Life - (1/13/2008)
Another successful day taking to the streets as we continue our partnership.
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Rosh Chodesh - (1/8/2008)
The women of Kavod got down...spiritually.
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Football + havdalah - (1/5/2008)
Put two good things together!
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Canvassing for housing justice - (12/30/2007)
Continuing our work with City Life/Vida Urbana
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Latke party, take II - (12/29/2007)
Just for fun, we did another latke party at the end of the year. Delicious times...!
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Ben's personal pampering - (12/27/2007)
Two news books + soup and good bread -- thanks for the love, Moishe!
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Margie gets pampered! - (12/24/2007)
Thanks to my generous pampering budget from the Forest Foundation, I hired Sarah to give me a massage. It was dreamy.
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Beit Midrash - (12/21/2007)
Note - this wasthe 18th, but we can't go back and fix it. We got together again this week for a study session at Kehilath Israel in Brookline.
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Dreams workshop - (12/20/2007)
Jewish Dream Book author Elizabeth Ochs led a well-attended and enthusiastically received workshop on dreaming in the Jewish tradition and in our lives. People loved it!
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Evan's Birthday & Ari's Return - (12/19/2007)
Evan, our minster of fun, and organizer of Moishe Kickball and Color War, became older today. So, we got together and celebrated. Also, former MHBOS housemate Ari Johnson was back from Mali for the week, so, a joint celebration.
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House Dinner & Conf. Call - (12/17/2007)
We got together to eat, plan, and talk with Brady, our worldwide director of fun!!
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Shabbat 12-14 - (12/14/2007)
Another awesome shabbat.
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Charles River Beit Midrash - (12/11/2007)
Torah, Torah, and more Torah!
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2nd Annual Exotic Latke Party - (12/8/2007)
Our second exotic latke party was awesome, like the first.
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Chanukah/birthday gathering - (12/6/2007)
We had a bunch of folks over to celebrate chanukah and the birthdays of two of our board members/shabbat team members.
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Anti-sex-trafficking meeting - (12/2/2007)
We joined with Gesher City to learn about sex-trafficking in Israel and what we can do to prevent it.
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Community Board Meeting - (12/2/2007)
Our second quarterly community board meeting. Over some bagels and lox, we went over proposals our different board teams had developed, like mission, statement of pluralism, and leaderhsip development plan.
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Clothing Swap - (12/2/2007)
Sarah organized a fun clothing swap.
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Jeiwsh Muslim Shabbat - (11/30/2007)
Our Jewish Muslim Shabbat was a big success. It was one of our biggest shabbat dinners ever, and everyone was just really into it and excited to build relationships with the Muslim community, after Jewish Muslim relations have been rocky of late in Boston. Our volunteer leaders did an amazing job of putting this on.
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Meeting w/CJP Pres. Barry Shrage - (11/26/2007)
Trying to convince big Jewish leaders to get on board with improving Jewish-Muslim relations in Boston. It's a tough task.
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Planning to meet w/CJP Pres. Barry Shrage - (11/19/2007)
We're trying to convince big machers in the institutional Jewish community to support our interfaith work with the Muslim community. This was a planning pre-meeting...
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Beit Midrash w/ Guest Teacher Rabbi Ariel Burger - (11/13/2007)
Rabbi Ariel Burger was our guest teacher. Rabbi Berger led a session of text study dedicated to the social justice issues surrounding Jewish ethics of conflict.
Rabbi Burger is a Ph.D. candidate in theology, social ethics and Judaic studies at Boston University, where he serves as a teaching fellow for Professor Elie Wiesel. He received his rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Bat Ayin Rabbinical School in Israel and teaches rabbinics at Harvard Hillel.
This event was co-sponsored with CJP's Pathways program. Pathways provides quality Jewish learning opportunities to young adults in their 20's and 30's.
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CJP Community Leadership Institute - (11/11/2007)
We brought 15 leaders to the federation's community leadership institute, and got a bunch of great ideas for how to grow sustainable. Ben and Margie both led workshops, which was cool recognition by the institutional jewish community. While there weren't new people that we brought (since it wasa private event), there were lots of people who were there who got excited about our house and wanted to get on our email list.
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Shabbat with Brady and Dave - with Pictures - (11/9/2007)
I found the pictures from our pre-shabbat cooking! Yay. But I can't edit that event anymore, so I am adding the link as a new event.
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Beit Midrash - (11/6/2007)
Torah + Ice Cream = Jewish Heaven
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Torah Yoga w/Jodi Falk - (11/4/2007)
Good for the guf, good for the neshamah. Torah Yoga expert Jodi Falk led us through a uplifting and fun torah yoga workout
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Shabbat Team Meeting - (10/31/2007)
Our dynamo Shabbat team got together to talk about our upcoming Jewish Muslim Shabbat, and to talk about how to keep growing sustainably.
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beit midrash 10/24 - (10/24/2007)
our weekly beit midrash, which our leadesr just run themselves. But they forgot to take photos. We are working really hard now to encourage them to take more photos.
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Dinner With Rabbi Uri Ayalon - (10/19/2007)
Rabbi Uri Ayalon, and activist rabbi in Israel, came to speak about creating social change in Israel.
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Beit Midrash - (10/18/2007)
This is really for september 4th. These pics are from the 11th, but I can't add them.
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Beit Midrash - (10/17/2007)
you know!
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Food Justice: Day of Learning and Action - (9/30/2007)
Months of planning resulted in a day of Learning and Action around issues of Food Justice on the Sunday of Sukkot. We gathered at Moishe House Boston to learn about poverty and food distribution though a workshop planned by Moishe house activists. Then we went to the EarthWorks orchard to volunteer for the afternoon, where we learned about how this organization was making fruit trees accessible to all of Boston's residents.
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Chag Sukkot - (9/27/2007)
On thursday night we invited a small group of Moishe house activists over to celebrate the harvest holiday, and to build connections between various working groups. These pics are from after yuntiv.
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Beit Midrash - (9/25/2007)
Another great session of the beit midrash.
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Iftar/Breakfast - (9/16/2007)
We had an awesome interfaith breakfast/iftar for ramadan and the Jewish fast of Gedalia.
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Rosh Chodesh Tishrei - (9/11/2007)
Women's new moon group to share stories, reflect on the new/old year and make yummy baked apples
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Community Board Meeting - (9/9/2007)
Our very first community board meeting -- to democratize our community, increase our members' leadership, and strategize about our future growth.
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Rosh Hashanah card-making bonanza - (9/6/2007)
We had a lovely evening making cards for family and friends. Everyone went home really happy.
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Beit Midrash - (9/4/2007)
What's going on
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Color War - (8/29/2007)
Actually 8/19. Color War war awesome. Evan and Katie planned it, and we had 4 hours of creative physical and intellectual games. Receipts coming for $140.
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Beit Midrash w Nehemia Polen - (8/28/2007)
Our weekly beit midrash was graced with the teachings of Nehemia Polen, a noted scholar of Chasidut. This week we raised money to support Hazon, the Jewish Environmental Bike Rides.
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House Concert with Avi Fox-Rosen - (8/21/2007)
Avi Fox-Rosen (www.frosenox.com) came up from new york for a benefit concert for the Muslim American Society's Build a Backpack campaign. He is a masterful musician, and we had a wonderful time.
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House dinner - (8/19/2007)
We had a big group of folks over on Sunday night for dinner, just to chill out and cultivate leadership.
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Shabbat 8/17 - (8/17/2007)
We had really nice services and a great crew of people.
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Jewish Muslim Relations Meeting - (8/16/2007)
Folks got together to talk about how to improve Jewish-Muslim relations in boston
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Build a Backpack - (8/15/2007)
As part of our ongoing campaign to build Jewish/Muslim relations in boston, a group of Muslims and Jews came together to assemble backpacks full of school supplies for underprivileged youth in boston.
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Beit Midrash - (8/14/2007)
The Boston Synagogue hosted our Beit Midrash, and sponsored a BBQ. We had an intergenerational crowd at this event. Andy introduced everyone, and we sat down for an evening of learning.
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Food Justice Planning Meeting - (8/12/2007)
In preparation for our Food Justice event during succot, we held a planning dinner.
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GesherCity InfoSchmooze - (8/8/2007)
We joined with geshercity and other local Jews orgs to host a happy hour, where we signed up over 30 new folks to our mailing list!!
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Havurah Institute - (8/6/2007)
We brought about 12 folks to the 400 person Havurah institute, which is sort of like Jewish camp for grown ups. We just counted the people who came who were involved in the house, but there were several more whom we hope to get involved.
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Shabbat 7-27 - (7/27/2007)
We had a great Shabbat in the park. Our new housemate Sarah led awesome services, and people stayed till late in the night.
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Beit Midrash - (7/26/2007)
THIS WAS JUNE, NOT JULY, BUT I CAN'T EDIT IT. Another good session of the Beit Midrash. This summer, we are switching over to shorter Torah talks at the beginning, and then more partnered text study. We are hoping this will work better, since many of our people are away for the summer and we wanted people to develop relationships with their learning partners.
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Dance Kinetics - (7/22/2007)
Riana Good led an exciting dance/movement workshop in a local park.
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Green Corps Fundraiser - (7/19/2007)
We brought a bunch of young Jews to raise money for environmental campaigns and leadership training. There were about 125 people there. We helped bring about 15 of them. So not sure how to count it.
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Beit Midrash - (7/17/2007)
It was nice outside, so we held our weekly beit midrash in the courtyard of a local shul.
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July 4th BBQ - (7/4/2007)
Delicious celebration of a hot summer day.
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July 4th Ultimate Frisbee - (7/4/2007)
We played frisbee. It was fun. The ministry of fun is up and running!
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Kickball - (7/1/2007)
Thanks to Evan and Katie, our new ministers of fun, we had our first official sporting event, the Moishe House kickball team. It was really fun, and brought in a bunch of new folks, including some fraternity/sorority types that we don't usually get.
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Intercommunity Day at the New Mosque - (6/27/2007)
We brought about 15 folks to stand in solidarity with our Muslim friends as they open their new mosque. There were over 200 people there, including Jews, Christians, and Muslims, and lots of talk of having more interefaith dialogue. After some resistance from Jewish right wingers to the new mosque, it was cool to be there and show that a lot of young Jews want religious tolerance and bridgebuilding.
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Beit Midrash 6-26 - (6/26/2007)
Another great session of the beit midrash
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Bone Marrow Registry Drive - (6/24/2007)
With a few other groups of young Jews, we helped turn out 150 people to get their cheeks swabbed in order to join a bone marrow registry. Thanks to a professional photographer, these are really good photos. Apprarantly people need bone marrow from folks with similar ethnicity, so this registry especially people of Jewish descent. It was awesome - we got the Klezmer punk band Golem to play and got a JP Lick's ice cream sundae bar that was free for participants. I think over half the people were involved in our house in some way, maybe more, but beyond that the overall event did a great job of letting people know about Moishe House and the other sponsoring groups. It was just really cool to see what we can put together when we collaborate with other groups.
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Moishe House Jam Session! - (6/21/2007)
We headed to Evan and Katie's for a jam session including a banjo, guitars, and clarinet, piano, drums, and egg shakers for the musically impaired. We set up a projector attached to a computer, so that people could see lyrics and chords, kind of like karioke but cooler.
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Shabbat Services and Dinner - (6/15/2007)
We have over 40 folks for shabbat services and dinner. We also heard from a Moishe House Community member who works with an anti-gang violence organisation in Boston.
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Marriage Equality Lobby Day - (6/14/2007)
We sent a bunch of folks to lobby for marriage equality, because there was a bill up that would put a gay marriage ban on the ballot for the '08 election. But we defeated it, and wound up on the front page of the NY Times website!
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Calling w/Keshet - (6/10/2007)
Fighting for marriage equality...and winning!
(We co-sponsored this event together with Keshet and the Jewish Organizing Initiative)
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Housing justice team - (6/10/2007)
Strategizing now...tenant organizing soon!
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Pajama Jammy Jam - (6/9/2007)
Sadly, Ari left (today), and so we threw him a pajama themed jam session to bid him farewell. In addition to playing lots of music, people wrote him letters to open at different points over the coming year, such as "on chanukah" or "when you are having a hard day." It was really sweet.
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Beit Midrash 6-5 - (6/5/2007)
Another great session at the beit midrash, followed by an awesome trip to JP Licks, our favorite ice cream place. I got mint mojito sorbet. Does it get any better than that?
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Learning Team Meeting - (6/3/2007)
12 folks got together to plan the beit midrash for the summer, and plan leadership sub-groups for the fall in various areas such as learning, fundraising, and logistics.
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Shabbat Services and Dinner - (6/1/2007)
Another elevating experience created through the Shabbat Team. Elana and Jordan facilitated services, lots of people cooked. Praying eating, talking about how to bring healing into the world--it was a beautiful Shabbat.
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Affordable housing team meeting - (5/24/2007)
We met with the organizing director of City Life/Vida Urbana to plan a tenant organizing campaign in which our house can take the lead. Cool, huh?
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Goodbye to Alyson and Ari - (5/16/2007)
We had ice cream and went out to a neighborhood pub to say goodbye to two awesome roomies. They will live forever in our hearts (but actually they'll be in Israel and Mali...weird).
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Breakdancing Rabbis - (5/16/2007)
Rabbinical students learn to breakdance!
Head-count based on rsvps.
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Beit Midrash - (5/15/2007)
Second session of 2 on Jewish views on torture, based on the Rabbis for Human rights curriculum, led by our own Dan Berman and Steven Lewis.
I posted the pictures from the beit midrash on the 2nd, because I can't add those anymore, and they are related.
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Action for Regional Equity Forum - (5/12/2007)
We participated in Action for Regional Equity's second annual resident forum, where a diverse range of groups -- from City Life/Vida Urbana to Clean Water Action to the Somerville Community Corporation to CHAPA to ACE-EJ -- gathered to share stories about their fights to create and preserve healthy, affordable housing and neighborhoods throughout Greater Boston. It was very cool.
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Shabbat Services and Dinner - (5/11/2007)
We had a smaller and more intimate gathering for services and dinner this past Shabbat, with good praying, good vocal musical stylings, good food, and good conversations.
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Beit Midrash - (5/9/2007)
We had our first of two sessions on Jewish responses to torture. Very powerful. Two Moishe House regulars led.
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Poetry as a Spiritual Practice - w/Shira - (5/3/2007)
working on getting our inner child OUT... living from the child within. we drew, we wrote, we poetry slammed!
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Beit Midrash - (5/2/2007)
Another great session of the beit midrash! A rabbi came from the Conservative Yeshiva in Israel and taught on the importance of study leading to action, and the importance of scholars not acting superior to regular people.
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Shavuot planning meeting - (4/29/2007)
Folks are planning an all night torah study with lots of creative arts workshops. All sorts of other groups have jumped on board, but our folks are taking the lead, including our intern getzel, who went to this meeting on our behalf. He has pics - trying to figure out how to download them.
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Meditation w/Rea - (4/25/2007)
Meditation is not something usually associated with Judaism. But did you know that some of the most revered Jewish sages meditated regularly? The Jewish tradition has much to teach us about meditation as a tool for emotional, mental and spiritual growth.
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Keshet/MassEquality House Party - (4/22/2007)
Bagel brunch + phone calls to support marriage equality + a beautiful spring day...this was a good one.
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Charles River Clean Up - (4/21/2007)
We cleaned up the river for Earth Day. We know, we know...we're wonderful people.
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Margie's Birthday Party - (4/21/2007)
The housemates, my boyfriend Shalom, and my best friend Diana threw me a crazy party, with all the Moishe House regulars there, and some new folks. It turned into a full on dance party, plus bat mitzvah style horah and bump me on a chair, plus party games, including my new gift of "Apples to apples: The Jewish Edition" which really exists, plus there was an impromptu co-ed wrestling match.
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Cozy Shabbat Dinner - (4/20/2007)
Ari and I decided to have a small shabbat dinner where we just invited some of our key leaders, to thank them for all their great work. But then it wound up getting a little bigger, because people kept calling us asking what was going on for Shabbat, so we wound up having 16 people. It was awesome - lots of singing and story telling.
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Post Passover Pizza Party - (4/10/2007)
As Passover ended, we gathered and ate made havdalah, ate pizza, and baked cookies.
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Ma'aseh Breshit ~ Works of Creation: A Three Part Jewish Workshop Series based on The Artist's Way (A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity) - (3/28/2007)
part 3.
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Ma'aseh Breshit ~ Works of Creation: A Three Part Jewish Workshop Series based on The Artist's Way (A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity) - (3/28/2007)
part 3.
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Beit Midrash - (3/27/2007)
The Beit Midrash strikes again. Shira Fischer did a fabulous job of teaching, and our new leaders are really stepping up to help us run things.
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Beit Midrash Strategy Session - (3/25/2007)
10 of us gathered together for a learning team meeting to strategize about how our Beit Midrash can continue now that we are running out of our initial funding. We set up teams to work on learning, fundraising, and leadership development. Very exciting.
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Havdallah - (3/24/2007)
Ice cream, more original music from Shir Yaakov, and a meditative close to Shabbat.
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Shabbat Lunch - (3/24/2007)
Our dining room table magically doubled in size for Shabbat. Singing, lentils, original music, and other miracles.
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Shabbat Services and Dinner - (3/23/2007)
We had an awesome Shabbat with guest leaders Rabbi Shir Yaakov Feinstein Feit and his friend Sarah Bracha.
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Encounter Point Film Screening - (3/22/2007)
We viewed a documentary about Israelis and Palestians working for peace through non-violent means.
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Encounter Point Film Screening - (3/22/2007)
Arlington MA 02474
Special screening of Encounter Point, a film that explores the everyday leaders who are working towards ending the Palestinian/Israeli conflict through non-violence.
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Labor Seder - (3/21/2007)
More than 120 folks joined us in the basement of Brookline's Kehillath Israel to celebrate the liberation story of Passover by honoring current workers' struggles for justice right here in Greater Boston!
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Ravaya Planning Dinner - (3/15/2007)
Jeremy, Gila and I shared a dinner meeting to work on the Ravaya, which is this "Rave for God" thing that people have been doing in NYC, and we are bringing to Boston. Jeremy has already been working on it with another of our leaders, but was having a hard time figuring out how to move forward with the Rebbe guy helping us to put it on, who sort of wants it to be his own thing. So now we have a schedule, a list of people to invite, a budget, and a letter to the Rebbe guy telling him that we could only do this if it were a co-sponsored event that builds our organizations.
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Beit Midrash - (3/13/2007)
Our ongoing learning program. I had the flu so I couldn't be there, but the learning team tells me it went great, with lots of new people and our lay leader Tamar as the teacher.
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Jews in the Woods - (3/9/2007)
March 9-11th. Think big tent revival meets crunchy Jews meet woods and frozen streams in New York State. Ecstatic prayer. People figuring out how to heal the world together. And woods. Margie led storytelling, Ari led Havdallah with our friend Zach Teutsch.
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GBIO Healthcare Affordability Action - (3/8/2007)
Together with GesherCity, we brought a solid contingent of young Jews down to the statehouse to rock out with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization in demanding universal, affordable healthcare for all!
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Ma'aseh Breshit ~ Works of Creation: A Three Part Jewish Workshop Series based on The Artist's Way (A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity) - (3/7/2007)
Potluck Dinner / Snacks Brought By All Participants (please bring something to share)
Note: This is not an art class, but it WILL make your life more colorful.
A three-part workshop designed to nourish your creativity, express and nurture your true self, and connect to Judaism through the book called The Artist’s Way. Are there dreams and creative projects you'd like to pursue in a supportive environment? Join Shirah Rubin for a three-part workshop based on Julia Cameron's life-changing book, The Artist's Way – A spiritual path to higher creativity. The exercises in this international bestseller will inspire and guide you to a life that reflects your passions and authentic expression. Artist's Way is available at amazon.com; please purchase, or borrow a copy.
At our first meeting, we will cover the material in the book up to page 41 (through Week One), and I will expect you to share your experience with the tasks, exercises, and practices - outlined in those pages so you should already be looking at the book! - It's usually available at a discount from www.amazon.com.~
Shirah Rubin is the head of the art department at Gann Academy – the New Jewish High School of Greater Boston. Shirah co-founded and directed BIMA – the Berkshire Institute for Music & Arts for three years.
Please RSVP to Alyson Solomon - alysonsolomon@yahoo.com. Indicate if you can make a commitment to attend all 3 sessions, or which sessions you can attend.
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Hamentaschen - (3/4/2007)
Several members of our Shabbat and Holidays team organized Hamentaschen baking at our house. After some wild baking, we brought hamentaschen to the local Hebrew senior life center.
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Purim Night! - (3/3/2007)
First we had a pre-party lechaim circle at our house, and then we rocked out at Temple Beth Zion, where we had a joint celebration, and then we went to our friend Jeremy's party
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Jewish Labor Committee Fundraiser - (3/1/2007)
The Jewish Labor Committee calls itself "the Jewish voice in the labor movement, and the voice of the labor movement in the Jewish community." We're union-lovin' Jews, so we went to the annual fundraiser of their New England chapter.
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